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Recent Examples of crater
Verb
Think back to 2020, many pundits were saying that if Democrat Joe Biden won, the market would crater. Zev Fima, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024 Panic selling can ‘crater your portfolio’ Some investors are prone to panic selling during periods of volatility and then often miss the stock market recovery with cash sitting on the sidelines, research shows. Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
Noun
According to one study, even in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere, the climatic conditions inside the volcanoes' craters are such that frost can form even though it's never been found elsewhere on Mars – even at the poles. David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025 Videos from the scene, verified and geolocated by CNN, show a large crater in the middle of the road next to the metro station. Maria Kostenko, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for crater 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crater
Verb
  • The wealthy were not allowed to simply hoard their wealth, park it in an offshore haven, and escape catastrophe by sailing away from a collapsing society on a superyacht.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The building resembles a doll house after the entire front wall collapsed and exposed the insides of the damaged interior.
    Tareq Al Hilou, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Just before his performance, audience members Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser ripped off his suit and tie to reveal a skin-tight blue jumpsuit with a plunging neckline.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • From JLo debuting her now iconic and internet-breaking plunging Versace gown in 2000 (which led to the creation of Google Images) to pop princess Miley Cyrus channeling Barbarella at last year’s carpet, the looks are always serving.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The film’s synopsis reads: Harris embarks on a perilous new cave diving expedition that will push the limits of adventure and force him to confront his deepest fears.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
  • This 250-foot-wide cave was once a massive rock, but wind eroded the sandstone over many years, yielding this striking natural wonder.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Rangers don't have the best reputation for developing their prospects, but many of the young players that have flopped were homogenous assets that clogged up their organizational pipeline.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The Right Stuff Year: 1983 Running time: 3 hours 13 minutes Director: Philip Kaufman Years before Bonfire of the Vanities flopped, Hollywood had a much better time adapting Tom Wolfe, turning his nonfiction book about the Mercury program into a clear-eyed piece of Americana.
    Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • While cases reported to the CDC by health departments dipped over the winter holidays, weekly infections have accelerated for a month straight since then.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Any hard-to-reach places can be cleaned with a small brush dipped in the cleaning solution if a microfiber cloth isn't doing the job.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to legend, Guru Padmasambhava, who is believed to have introduced Buddhism to Bhutan, rode to the mountain on the back of a tiger in the eighth century, spending three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours meditating in its caverns.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
  • One legend details another local connection — the Texas Rangers' rescue of a San Antonio girl who was kidnapped and held in the cavern.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • At best, presidents picked up-and-coming party devotees like Elaine Chao, a shameless pro-boss hack, or Tom Perez, a nice guy for sure, who failed to deliver any significant gains for blue-collar America.
    John Samuelsen, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The effort to begin a partition with the Gaza Strip has failed colossally.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • More light rain fell periodically through the Bay Area on Monday, continuing a pattern that began Friday and ended a nearly month-long stretch without precipitation.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In other words, in patients with Alzheimer's, the rising and falling of blood oxygen levels was fairly out of sync with the pulsing of the blood vessels that are supposed to deliver that blood to the brain.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025

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“Crater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crater. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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